Corporate & Finance
Global Guide 2024 : Bermuda
Band 2
Email address
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+1 441 295 6500About
Provided by ASW Law
ASW’s corporate department services businesses world-wide and has significant expertise dealing with complicated corporate structures and difficult legal issues in a commercially relevant way, frequently working with and alongside top law firms from the UK, the US and around the globe.
The corporate team is ranked highly in all of the major independent legal research directories, including Who’s Who Legal, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. Our Head of Corporate, Neil Horner, is top ranked for corporate and finance and recognised as a 'thought leader' in (re)insurance.
We offer Bermuda legal advice relevant to all issues of general corporate law and in relation to a multitude of transactions and industry-related issues, including, but not limited to:
- Aircraft registration and aircraft financing
- Banking and finance
- Bermuda stock exchange listings
- Capital raisings and debt offerings
- Capital reductions
- Corporate restructurings
- Corporate governance
- Company migrations
- FinTech and digital asset business
- Funds
- Incorporations and continuances
- Insurance and reinsurance (commercial and non-commercial)
- Insurance linked securities
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Partnership and LLC formations
- Regulatory matters
- Schemes of arrangement
- Share buy-backs and redemptions
- Share offerings (private and public)
- Shipping registration and finance
- Telecommunications and technology
- Trusts and not for profit structures
ASW has its own dedicated corporate administration company.
Chambers Review
ASW's highly rated team is particularly noted for its expertise in insurance and reinsurance transactions. The Bermuda-based law firm represents a diverse list of global insurance corporations and other major clients operating in the financial services sector, and it enjoys longstanding recognition for its proficiency in M&A and capital markets issuances.
Work Highlights
- ASW advised Argo Group International Holdings on the Bermudian law aspects of its approximately USD1.1 billion acquisition by Brookfield Reinsurance.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are a class act. They have great depth and breadth of team, and they are super-responsive."
"They are a class act. They have great depth and breadth of team, and they are super-responsive."
Notable Practitioners
Department head Neil Horner is frequently commended for his deep experience advising on high-value M&A transactions, especially those occurring in the insurance sector. He offers complementary regulatory expertise.
"Neil is a remarkable lawyer. He is incredibly knowledgeable about corporate governance in Bermuda, as well as about transactional and regulatory work. He really is great."